storms and rains

I love how much we can learn from nature! Especially during storms and rains!

These past few weeks have been raining a lot where I live, and we were in a yellow sign these few days because of a storm. Days like this really make me think a bit more. I have been waking up to the sound of the rain and thunder and it has actually been amazing!

Today I sat down at my desk next to the window to start my day, I caught myself not getting scared because of the storm but amazed by how amazing and beautiful it is! I actually remembered something I had learned so many years ago but that now made a little different sense to me!

When a thunderstorm is happening, we first see a bolt of lightning and then we can hear the thunder - this happens because light travels so much faster than sound and because the thunderclap after the lighting is achieved by the echo of the shock wave in the upper layers of the atmosphere (not trying to give you a physics lesson - sorry!). And as I was amazed thinking about how amazing a storm is I caught myself thinking about how much our lives are like a storm. We tend to say our life is a mess and confusion, just like a storm and we tend to be afraid of what is coming for us, just like a lot of us are scared of storms.

But my thought was about how we make decisions and take actions to later see results. Sometimes we think so much before a decision or an action, that we expect the thunder after to be so beautifully loud just like we wanted and sometimes it’s just a blackout thunderclap that hits us. And sometimes we decide or take action at the moment and the thunderclap is a gorgeous sound. Just like we don’t know everything about a storm - where it is coming from, how it was totally formed and how it is going to end -, our lives are an unknown system of lights and sounds! And like a storm, we have got to start enjoying it and loving it even if it scares us!

So I made my peace with the fact that I will never know or be 100% certain of something! The first step is to understand that and the second step is to just live with knowing that - and it’s a life decision! We can try to deny it for how long you can, it’s not easy or you can learn to live it with - it may seem harder in the beginning but will save you a tone of headaches and crisis after than if you choose to deny and than deal with it when you are at the worst! 

Making your peace with the fact that your decisions and actions have consequences, that may be beautiful or scary, and learning to live with it is also a trip and but will lead you to amazing places!